Deck 6: The First Americans: Around 14000

Question 1

Which of the following is NOT a controversy surrounding the debate of the peopling of the New World?

A) what toolkit they brought with them and what their life way was
B) when humans first settled the New World
C) what the ancestry of the first Native Americans is
D) that migrations from Siberia were taken to reach the Americas

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The land mass that people crossed to enter the Americas is called __________.

A) Siber-alaskia
B) Chukchi
C) Beringia
D) Anadyr

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Sites in Alaska that date to the time of the first settlements of the Americas do NOT include __________.

A) Clovis Point
B) Broken Mammoth
C) Dry Creek
D) Walker Road

Answer 3

A

Question 4

According to Christy Turner's research of dental morphology, Native Americans are __________.

A) sundadonts
B) microdonts
C) sinodonts
D) macrodonts

Question 5

Turner and Greenberg think there were __________ groups who migrated into the New World.

A) two
B) three
C) four
D) five

Question 6

The oldest site in North America is believed to be __________.

A) Clovis
B) Folsom
C) Meadowcroft
D) Koster

Question 7

The oldest site in South America is believed to be __________.

A) Monte Verde
B) Caverna de Pedra Pintada
C) TehuacánValley
D) Naco

Question 8

Using computer modeling, it was found that it would take __________ years for new hunter gatherer populations to inhabit the New World.

A) 500
B) 2,000
C) 5,000
D) 1,000

Question 9

Clovis culture is known mainly from which kinds of sites from western North America?

A) settlements
B) temporary camps
C) kill sites
D) for aging areas

Question 10

The Clovis tradition across North America __________.

A) is rather uniform
B) is strikingly different from place to place
C) contains typical fluted points, but the rest of the toolkit varies
D) replaces earlier Inuit traditions

Question 11

Which of the following is NOT a hypothesis for the big-game extinctions?

A) disease and viruses among the animals
B) changing environments
C) variation in mean temperature
D) intensive hunting by Paleo-Indians

Question 12

Archaeological Plains sites dating to after 10,500 B. C. show that __________ became the dominant species exploited by Paleo-Indians.

A) deer
B) mammoth
C) bison
D) rabbits

Question 13

Which of the following is true about the site of Koster, Illinois?

A) it chronicles human activity from 7500 B.C. to 1200 B.C.
B) the Paleo-Indian settlements were permanent
C) the Archaic settlements were temporary and exploited less of the natural resources
D) it chronicles human activity from 7500 B.C. to A.D. 1200

Question 14

During the Archaic, long distance exchange was evident in the Eastern Woodlands of North
America. Which of the following was NOT a traded item listed in your textbook?

A) copper
B) hematite
C) bird feathers
D) seashells

Question 15

The Arctic Small Tool tradition is thought to be the origin of __________.

A) modern Aleut tools
B) modern Inuit tools
C) Paleo-Indian tools
D) Archaic tools

Question 16

Differences between Aleut and Inuit seem to be primarily __________.

A) cultural
B) environmental
C) language group (as defined by Joseph Greenberg)
D) genetic

Question 17

Which of the following is NOT a tradition associated with the Inuit or Aleut?

A) Thule
B) Halibut
C) Norton
D) Arctic Small Tool

Question 18

During the time of the Bering land bridge the world sea levels were as much as __________ meters lower than today.

A) 10
B) 50
C) 100
D) 250

Question 19

The site in Siberia thought to have been a staging area for the first Native Americans is __________.

A) Diuktai
B) Anadyr
C) Chukchi
D) Clovis

Question 20

The route(s) of settlement into the New World came via __________.

A) the ice-free corridor
B) seacoasts
C) open ocean voyage
D) Polynesia

Question 21

At the site of Monte Verde the most important raw material was __________.

A) stone
B) wood
C) bones
D) sinew

Question 22

What is the Clovis site in Arizona where people killed mammoth and bison?

A) Murray Springs
B) Meadow Croft
C) Monte Verde
D) Folsom

Question 23

The Plains hunting cultures also had large kill sites in __________, Colorado. This is where approximately 200 bison of all ages were stampeded into a deep, narrow arroyo.

A) Garnsey
B) Hogup
C) Olsen-Chubbock
D) Gatecliff

Question 24

Discuss the controversies surrounding the peopling of the New World.

Question 25

Discuss the biological and linguistic evidence for the first Americans.

Question 26

Explain the factors that lead to social differentiation in the Eastern Woodlands during the Archaic.